Books by Etienne van Heerden
“The genre of this book is the most popular one at the moment. Now, let me first make you understand what kind of a genre it is. There is this thing that is happening now, especially in South Africa, whereby stories are also set in some global cities outside of South Africa. And we’re no longer only looking west; apparently, we’re also looking east, so there are a lot of stories now that are set in China. This one is part of that movement: It’s partly set in China, and generally set in South Africa…It follows a Black woman who comes across some kind of data harvesting business. She realises that her father is involved in this, and there’s some corruption because it involves the government during the Zuma years of our presidency. It follows the sniff of this corruption to China, and that’s where tragedy strikes.” Read more...
The Best African Contemporary Writing
Mphuthumi Ntabeni, Novelist
Interviews where books by Etienne van Heerden were recommended
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Season of Migration to the North
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The Land Is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa
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Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa
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A Library to Flee
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A General Theory of Oblivion
by Daniel Hahn (translator) & José Eduardo Agualusa
The Best African Contemporary Writing, recommended by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
The Best African Contemporary Writing, recommended by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
The emphasis in new African writing is away from politics towards how the individual responds to events, says South African novelist Mphuthumi Ntabeni, author of The Broken River Tent and The Wanderers. He picks out five outstanding books of African writing, including novels that paved the way for new genres, a book of short stories from across Africa, and a work of nonfiction that he recommends to “anybody who wants to know what is happening in South Africa.”
